On 9/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gregg</b> <<a href="mailto:3gemail@gmail.com">3gemail@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have just picked up a SA 3250HD box from tw cable socal. I connected the box and the firewire and get the following:<br><br>[mythtv@mythtv ~]$ plugreport<br>Host Adapter 0<br>==============<br><br>Node 0 GUID 0x001692b6c1740000
<br>------------------------------<br>oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63<br>oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=1<br> channel=0, data_rate=2, overhead_id=0, payload=146<br>iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
<br><br>Node 1 GUID 0x00e0180000651c01<br>------------------------------<br>libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR<br>libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR<br><br><br>From what I can tell this is normal, but when I try to run test-mpeg2 -r 0 ->
testcap.ts<br>I get a file with zero bytes. Is it possible that the port is not enabled, or is tw using 5c? Below is some more output.<br><br>[mythtv@mythtv ~]$ test-mpeg2 -r 0 > testcap.ts <br>libiec61883 warning: Overlayed connection on channel 0.
<br>You may need to manually set the channel on the receiving node.<br>Starting to receive<br>done.<br><span class="sg"><br><br>-Gregg
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></blockquote><div><br>Plug report looks good and you ran test-mpeg2 correctly. The output from that command looks good. That is exactly what I get on my box when I run that command. You have to make sure you are tuned to a hidef channel like NBCHD, it shouldn't have 5c. Attached is Jim Westfall's script that should help to prime firewire to get it working. Before his script you had to run some plugctl commands to get it working. Now you just run his script with the instructions below and you should be good to go. I got this script from the mailing list about 2 weeks ago and I am sure there is a newer version. You can look through the archives for his name and see the original posts.
<br><br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="1">Attached is a firewire tester I wrote up this evening. I would like to</font><br><font size="1">get a few firewire folks to give it a try. It still needs a bit of clean
</font><br><font size="1">up, but should be mostly functional.</font><br><br><font size="1">It allows testing of both p2p and broadcast connections, as well as</font><br><font size="1">attempting to fix up broadcast connections.
</font><br><br><font size="1">should make testing easier then the test-mpeg2 > blah, ctrl-c, ls -l blah</font><br><font size="1">method.</font><br><br><font size="1">firewire_tester <action> -n <node> [-P <port>] [-v]
</font><br><font size="1"> Actions: (one is required)</font><br><font size="1"> -b - test broadcast connection</font><br><font size="1"> -p - test p2p connection</font><br><font size="1"> -B - attempt to fix/stabilize broadcast connection
</font><br><font size="1"> Options</font><br><font size="1"> -n <node> - required</font><br><font size="1"> -P <port> - default 0</font><br><font size="1"> -v - verbose</font><br><br><br>
<font size="1">$ ./firewire_tester -p -n 2</font><br><font size="1">Testing P2P connection, node 2, channel 2</font><br><font size="1">p2p: failed</font><br><br><font size="1">$ ./firewire_tester -b -n 2</font><br><font size="1">
Testing broadcast connection, node 2, channel 61</font><br><font size="1">broadcast: failed</font><br><br><font size="1">$ ./firewire_tester -B -n 2</font><br><font size="1">Attempting to fixup broadcast connection on node 2
</font><br><font size="1">broadcast: failed</font><br><font size="1">p2p: failed</font><br><font size="1">p2p: success, 162 packets received</font><br><font size="1">broadcast: failed</font><br><font size="1">p2p: failed</font>
<br><font size="1">p2p: success, 163 packets received</font><br><font size="1">broadcast: failed</font><br><font size="1">p2p: failed</font><br><font size="1">p2p: success, 110 packets received</font><br><font size="1">broadcast: success, 77 packets
</font><br><font size="1">broadcast: success, 99 packets</font><br><font size="1">broadcast: success, 113 packets</font><br><font size="1">broadcast: success, 153 packets</font><br><font size="1">broadcast: success, 141 packets
</font><br><font size="1">fix bcast success</font><br><br><font size="1">$ ./firewire_tester -b -n 2</font><br><font size="1">Testing broadcast connection, node 2, channel 61</font><br><font size="1">broadcast: success, 106 packets
</font><br></div><br>Allan<br> </div><br></div>